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- J. H. WEAVER.

PROTEGTIVE BOOK CORNER.

Patented Dec. 2, '1884.

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E S S E! N H W UNITED STATES PATENT. CFFICE.

JAMES H. WEAVER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOE TO THE \VEAVER MAIL PACKET MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.

. PROTECTIVE BOOK-CORNER.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,718, dated December 2, 1884.

Application filed September 22, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-.

Be it known that I, JAMES H. Wnavna, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Protective Book-Corners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the an ne'Xed drawings, making part hereof.

The nature of my invention will fully appear from the following description and claim.

The object of my invention is to provide for the sides or panels of books, in neat, cheap, and detachable protective corners,which I prefor to make of sheet metal covered with stout paper, in the manner hereinafter described.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my struckout metallic plates backed with paper, and ready for bending into form; Fig. 2, an outside perspective view showing my device doubled up previous to bending into the angular form; Fig. 8, an end view of Fig. 2, showing the metallic plate (in heavy black line) inclosed in the paper. Fig. '4 is a side view of my completed device in place upon the cornerof a book panel or side.

A is a stamped-out piece of sheet metal having the recesses or incisions B B stamped out of each side of the same. This sheet metal consists of Russia or other sheet-iron, sheet brass, copper, or other suitable metal in sheet form.

C C Ois a sheet of stout paper or other suitable material, which backs up and folds completely around the metallic sheet A.

D represents the corner of a book panel or side of a pasteboard, card-board, or other sheet or panel the corners of which it is desired to protect from undue wear.

I do not limit myself to the exact form of 4.0 the incisions or cut-out portions B 13 shown in the drawings, Fig. 1, as such form may be somewhat varied. It is only necessary to make these incisions of such form that the corners E E thereof will not interfere with bringing the device into the right-angular form shown in Fig. 4. When the paper and metal are doubled up and bent, as shown in the latter figure, all the corners E E and the other corners of the metal sheet or plateAmay be made rounded off to prevent the metal cutting through the envelopingpaper or other enveloping material. The sheet A is stamped or cut out by means of a dieinto the form shown in Fig. 1. The paper C C C is thenfolded around it, and the paper and metallic sheet are then doubled up lengthwise into the form shown in Fig. 2. The device is then bent into a rightangular form, as shown in Fig. 4. My device is then ready for sale and shipment as a separate article of commerccthat is, it can be sold independently of books or other articles with which it is designed to be used. The narrow neck F, Fig. 1, which is left after the incisions B Bare made, enables the metal sheet or plate to be easily bent into the form shown in Fig. 4, the paper doubling up as it is bent.

What I claim is As a corner-protector for book and other panels, the sheet-metal plate A, with side incisions or cut-out portions,B B,combined with a paper covering, doubled up lengthwise into a trough form, and bent into the shape of a right angle, substantially as shown.

JAMES H. \VEAVER.

Witnesses:

. REDMAN COOPER,

WM. H. CARSON. 

